Nic Cage Photo: No Substitute for Résumé

Everyone makes email blunders, but in Vanessa Hojda’s case, mistakenly attaching a photo of actor Nicolas Cage to a job application has made her an instant celebrity online.

Hojda, a 20-year-old student at York University in Toronto, inadvertently became the object of the Web’s attention this week after emailing her school’s career center about an administrative assistant job. Instead of uploading her résumé and cover letter, however, she accidentally attached a startling photo of actor Nicolas Cage.

Blogging about the goof on her Tumblr, Hojda said that she had been thrown by the numbers in the file names, which were similar. “Jesus Christ I accidentally sent my potential future boss a picture of Nic Cage…Oh my God,” she wrote, in all caps.

Someone at the career center alerted Hojda to the fact that the attachment contained not her résumé, but a picture of “Nic Cage looking terrifying,” she told the Washington Post.